Word: furiousness
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...line of G.I.s snakes cautiously through the underbrush. The sudden chatter of a machine gun sends them scrambling for cover, and for several long tense minutes there is a furious exchange of small-arms fire. Then, just as suddenly, all is quiet, and out there in the elephant grass a young recruit lies twisted in the grotesque posture of death. He had been with the company for a month, someone recalls, but sadly, no one can remember his name. Says one G.I.: "He had freckles ... I think...
...Kong government backed down by cutting the devaluation to a mere 5.7%. In Malaysia, which took the curious step of devaluing its old, but still circulating, sterling-backed currency though not its new gold-backed dollar, eight were killed and 137 hurt when a protest demonstration erupted into a furious battle between Chinese and Malays in Penang. The Government feared that, with Communists doing all they could to take advantage of the situation, the disturbances might spread across the country...
Particularly Furious. The Socialists have been out of power in Germany for 36 years, ever since they served briefly in the Weimar Republic coalition. Now that they have the responsibility of government, things look different than when they merely opposed. The unions accuse them of acting like reactionaries-of dismantling the German welfare system because they voted to impose small prescription and health-insurance fees on pensioners, of sabotaging the coal-mining Ruhr because they refuse to block U.S. oil imports, and of giving aid and comfort to capitalists because Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller has pumped government spending into...
Alarmed by this development, Party Boss Willy Brandt, the coalition's Foreign Minister, called the emergency conference to enable the unions and local politicians to let off steam. Both groups are particularly furious at Herbert Wehner, the terrible-tempered party strategist of the coalition. They blame him for coming all too speedily to the troubled Christian Democrats' rescue by agreeing to a coalition, thus depriving the Socialists of a chance to take over completely in the next election...
...Your Clinic Will Burn." Furious, Dr. Giorgi stormed into the OEO's offices in Washington with a plan for a medical center outlined on a piece of note paper. OEO bought the idea, and within a year, through the University of Southern California's medical school, had funded the new Watts Health Center. Built on land leased from Los Angeles for $1 a year, the center was opened last month. At the dedication ceremony, a young firebrand of Watts's Black Power movement introduced Dr. Giorgi to the crowd. As she mounted the podium, the young...